Don Collins is a fomer NYPD investigator. After twenty years with the department he retired and opened his own private detective agency, working cases in the five boroughs before moving to Florida where, for eight years he was the Chief Investigator for The Home Shopping Network. Don is a Vietnam veteran who was drafted out of the New York City Police Academy and served with the 716 Military Police Battalion and the Ninth Infantry Division during the 1968 Tet offensive. Don graduated from Valley Stream High School, earned a bachelor’s degree from New York Institute of Technology, and completed graduate level studies at C.W. Post College. He and his wife Cathy live in Seminole, Florida and have four grown children and eleven grandchildren.